UPDATE 1-Ireland's eircom decides against public listing for now
The Dublin-based firm, which filed for protection from creditors just two years ago, said last month it was seeing early signs of commercial momentum amid stabilising earnings. eircom appointed investment banks Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley in April to ...
Ireland Baldwin Completely OWNS Tabloid That Photoshoped Cellulite On Kendall Jenner
Kendall Jenner has alot of things written about her, the stupidest is probably that she has cellulite, which friend Ireland Baldwin ranted about on Twitter. The model was outraged, and rightly so, that anyone would suggest there's anything wrong with ...
Top ten worst times to have lived in Ireland
Ireland is known for its rich historical past. No stranger to conquests, hunger and tyranny, here are the top ten eras where living in the Emerald Isle was treacherous. The Vikings arrived in Ireland in June 795 AD from Denmark and Norway and attacked ...
Ireland’s only archive web portal makes hundreds of unique archival collections freely available online
THE Irish Archives Resource (IAR), represented by a voluntary group of professional archivists launched an information flyer in the National Archives today about Ireland’s only archive web portal, www.iar.ie to mark its expansion and the provision of ...
Ireland shakes up fund rules in bid to improve management
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Investment funds based in Ireland will no longer have to hire two Irish residents as directors under a central bank plan to improve oversight of one of the global fund industry's biggest hubs. Thousands of funds worth an estimated 1.5 ...
Scotland's Vote Could Bring Big Changes To England, Wales, N. Ireland
British Prime Minister David Cameron says now that voters in Scotland have rejected independence, he is committed to giving more powers not only to Scotland, but also to "everyone in England, Wales and Northern Ireland." Cameron announced that Lord Smith ...
Portugal Weighs IMF Loan Payback as It’s Not Ireland Yet
Portugal wants to wait for lower yields before deciding to go down a path taken by the Irish. Ireland’s decision this month to make early repayments of its International Monetary Fund rescue loans has led some investors and strategists to see if Portugal ...
Ireland’s Success Is a Lesson for EU Policy Makers
Ireland’s blowout second-quarter growth figures are more than just a domestic achievement. The wider political significance of this result shouldn’t be overlooked. It’s been clear for some time that Ireland is enjoying a robust recovery. Business ...
Ireland's Economy Surges Ahead of Eurozone
Ireland's economy was the fastest-growing in Europe during the three months to June as it continued to recover from a property-market and banking collapse that forced the government to rely on financing from the International Monetary Fund and the European ...
Ireland Economy Grows 7.7 Percent, Leads Eurozone
Ireland's economy is growing at a rapid pace last experienced at the tail-end of the Celtic Tiger boom, government statisticians reported Thursday as economists declared an end to the country's financial doldrums. The report from the Central Statistics ...
Red Hat shores up mobile strategy with FeedHenry acquisition
Red Hat Inc. has put hybrid computing at the center of its long-term growth strategy, but while the company’s on-premise software portfolio may be second to none in the open-source world, its public cloud lineup lags behind the competition in both adoption and functionality. The Linux giant hopes to ...
Herbstfarben / Autumn Colours
So sieht mein neuer Schal ausgebreitet aus, ich liebe diese Mischung aus Orange und Grün. / This is what my new scarf looks like when it's stretched out, I love this mixture of orange and green. Die Wolle (Merino extrafein) habe ich in Hamburg gekauft, bei Wolleverliebt aus Berlin. Das Grün heißt Ir ...
so don't cremate me when I'm gone, I won't be gone for long
Hey y'all. It's been a while. So my trip to the doctor from the last post ended with me getting diagnosed with IBS (and there I was thinking that all my digestive issues were just normal) and put on a diet of mostly protein and veggies (because my body has decided it is incapable of digesting proces ...
VIDEO: Football Focus for BBC World
Dan Walker is joined by former Republic of Ireland midfielder Kevin Kilbane for this week's Football Focus for BBC World.
Britain's wobble has dented our standing in Washington, and the world
Barack Obama has of course welcomed the Scottish "No" vote, but for those reading carefully, his delight came with a slight sting in the tail. After the usual pleasantries about "no closer ally" and "strong and special relationship", the President added that he was looking forward to working with th ...
New Ireland Fund : Announces Payment of Quarterly Distribution
(4-traders.com) BOSTON, MA -- (Marketwired) -- 09/19/14 -- The New Ireland Fund, Inc. (NYSE MKT: IRL) (the "Fund"), a closed-end fund, today announced that it paid on September 19, 2014, a distribution of US$0.30245 per share to all shareholders of record as of September 9, 2014. Your Fund's distrib ...
Listening to women...for a change
The Diocese of Killaloe, Ireland, is a very typical one and not in crisis...yet. It has around 100 priests to staff its 56 parishes but more than half of them are over 66 years old and vocations are declining. Given this panorama, Bishop Kieran O'Reilly (photo) decided pro-actively to introduce a pe ...
Random Thoughts and World Politics
We live in an old house. Sadly, each and every time it rains after a dry spell the foundation shifts a bit and then we play the "which door will now be unusable" game. The other day, this meant it was time for our back door to permanently lock itself. So, early this morning the repair guy came by an ...
Deerfield drugmaker defies Democrats' anti-inversion effort
Horizon Pharma Inc., a Deerfield-based specialty drugmaker, shifted its corporate address to Ireland today, defying a threat by Democratic lawmakers to unwind such maneuvers retroactively. Now known as Horizon Pharma Plc, it's the first company to complete an address change, known as an inversion, t ...
